InstantAction Beta Blog

Web 2.0 Expo

Hey Everyone, Mark Frohnmayar, who worked on ZAP, Marble Blast, and Tribes, is attending the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco through April 25th.  if you're a web 2.0/social gaming extroadinaire and are in the SF area during those times and also want to chew the fat with one of the pioneers, let us know.  We might be able to hook you up and you can talk about InstantAction, GarageGames, Web 2.0, the future, or whatever. 

Post a comment here and I'll see what I can do.  Make sure you provide a valid email address I so can contact you.

-Dr Wiley

Chat with Mark Frohnmayer Right Here!

At 3:00pm PST you'll be able to chat with Mark Frohnmayer right in this blog post.  Or if you prefer you can hit up the chat on Ustream via this link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/zap-live-chat0

 

 

Something to watch while you wait!

Mark Frohnmayer live chat

Who is Mark Frohnmayer?

You may know Mark back from the Tribes days.  He's got quite the background so here's a bit of his bio from his GarageGames profile.

"I have worked at GarageGames since the start, having co-founded it with Rick, Jeff and Tim. Back before we were a big boat with a big idea we were a tiny life raft with a big idea, and so I have had a chance to wear many hats: engine programmer and architect (on the original Torque), game designer and programmer (on Marble Blast and Zap), producer (on MBU) and even executive (as the President of the company from mid 2005 through the end of 2006 ). Currently I am working on a variety of interesting projects.

Before GarageGames I was employed by Dynamix (a division of Sierra, which was first a publicly traded company, then a division of CUC International which merged with HFS to form Cendant, whose financial chicanery caused them to divest of games selling Sierra+Blizzard+others to Havas, a division of Vivendi). At Dynamix I did general game technology programming as well as design and programming on the Starseige Tribes and TRIBES 2 games. In an odd coincidence of timing Sierra shut down Dynamix on the same day GarageGames launched the Torque Game Engine (our first product; then branded the V12) into the web."

Mark Frohnmayer will be chatting live this Thursday, April 10th, at 3pm PST.   Get all those questions ready, because this is a once in a lifetime event!

For more information click here!

Live Chat Information

The good news is that this Thursday you'll be able to chat and ask questions with Mark Frohnmayer (Lead Developer on Tribes, Lead Designer on Marble Blast, Z.A.P. developer, and GarageGames co-founder).  The chat starts at 3pm PST and will run around an hour depending on the supply of questions from you guys. 

The bad news is that the chat with Dylan Romero (Marketing Genius) has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts. 

Here's the rundown:

• What: Chat about Z.A.P., Tribes, or whatever with developers.
• Where: Ustream - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/zap-live-chat0
• Who: Mark Frohnmayer
• When: Thursday, April 10th, 3 pm PST at the Ustream link provided above or the blog post that you'll find on Thursday.

Here's who you'll be talking to:

Mark Frohnmayer

Here's who you won't be talking to:

Dylan Romero

I'll keep you posted on when you can finally make Dylan happy by talking to him.

-Dr Wiley

Chat with the InstantAction Marketing Peeps

There were a lot of questions for Tim Aste, Director of Legions, when we did the live interview a couple weeks ago.  But there were also a lot of questions that were geared toward the Marketing side of InstantAction.  What are we going to do about this?  We're going to give you the chance to ask all the marketing questions you can throw at Dylan Romero, InstantAction Marketing Guy.

Dylan Romero

• What:  A live interview/Q & A/friendly chatfest.  We'll be talking at length about the InstantAction web-based gaming console and site. We'll take questions on current operations, future plans, marketing issues and whatever else comes up.

• When:  April 8, 2008, 2pm PST (rescheduled)

• Where:  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/instantaction-live-chat, or you can view the blog post which will have the feed and a handy chat window.

• Why:  To answer any and all questions you may have.  Well the questions Dylan feels like answering anyway.

See ya there and I'll post a reminder tomorrow.

-Dr Wiley

Josh Williams and Mark Frohnmayer at Startupalooza

Josh Williams(CEO of GarageGames) and Mark Frohnmayer(Co-Founder of GarageGames) will be speaking about and giving a demo of InstantAction at this year's Startupalooza.

Read the full story at the Startupalooza website.

Starupalooza is an interactive forum for the Portland tech startup community. Find out about cool tech startups, learn from successful tech entrepreneurs and meet local tech-business people in a candid, no-BS environment.

Chat with Tim Aste, Project Director of Fallen Empire: Legions

It's finally here.  Today at 3pm PST you'll be able to ask questions and get answers from Tim Aste.  So be here or be a square.  Alternatively you can head to the Ustream page to access the interview.

InstantAction on G4

The segment "Web Tools" on Attack of the Show recently featured InstantAction.  The video has an awesome run-down of features from Eugene Morton, and explains how it'll help reduce productivity even more while at work...or home.  Check out the video and read the full post over at G4TV.com

-Dr Wiley